This idea should get scoring for 2nd-6th place right. winner is 1st, nothing to discuss about that :o) However the remaining places are alloted by how many dice did that player kill of the winning player?

This would require an ingame view where you can see during the game, somewhere next to every avatar how many dice you killed already of that player.

This would
*) discourage sitting somewhere in the back of the board without taking part of the game.
*) stop the stupid hatered of the 2-6 player about score against each other when there is already a strongest player, everyone will take care of the strongest player => more interesting game play.
*) remove the virtually free disposal of ranking the others when you are the strongest.
*) make score fairer
*) and the game more fun :o)

PS: Yes when you are equal up with another player having the same "kill-dice-of-winner-score" you have two 2nd places, and no 3rd. Nothing wrong with that, we have this concept in sports since long already.

Oh yes most important: it would not change anything about the dicewars playing concept, since the scoring is a new invcention of kdice over dicewars!

Hm, Will games ever end, when there's always a different leader? And what if you are doing ok on one side of the map but the later winner takes the other side? You are 2nd strongest but get ranked 5th or 6th because the leader is already to strong to kill lots of his/her dice when he/she comes to your corner... a direction to think further in, but this isn't it

*buzzer*

The game's not going to end in any reasonable amount of time. And Aliaia's comment has good points.

well
*) the game will not last forever, a stronger player is at one time just stronger than everyone else. You can simply try it out with people always trying to to attack the strongest, its a fun game, yes its a bit longer than when the weak ones fall in each others back but it wont last very much longer.
*) Due to the nature of the game of dice numbering up, the endgame is far more important here than the beginning. Since at start you kill 2-4 dice per country you take. At the end its almost always 8. So when you start on the other hand, and have as 2nd a handfull of countries (say e.g. 9) against the strongest player with 20. you will loose but you will take 50% chance of every 8 you attack so 9*8*0.5 = 36. This is much more than another player could have done against the winner in the begin-game.

This idea has merit, makes end game MUCH MUCH more interesting!